Two months after our divorce, I found my ex-wife alone in a hospital corridor—and the moment I recognized her, everything I thought I felt began to shatter

precision over the armrest.

I placed the discharge papers on the kitchen table.

Then I made tea because I did not know what else to do, and tea had always been one of the things Emily made when the world felt too big.

She sat at the table and watched the steam rise.

For a long while, neither of us said anything.

Then she said, “You don’t have to stay.”

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